Bob Bromley

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Mr. Krutko.

Mr. Speaker, I will be ready and demanding, when next we gather, to finally reverse some of these trends and truly do good work for the benefits of our residents, our land and our families.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your committee has been considering Bill 6, An Act to Amend the Residential Tenancies Act; Committee Report 2-16(2); Committee Report 3-16(2); and Minister’s Statement 62-16(2) and would like to report progress, with 11 motions being adopted. Committee Reports 2 and 3 and Minister’s Statement 62-16(2) are concluded, and Bill 6 is ready for third reading.

Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of the Committee of the Whole be concurred with.

Thank you very much, Premier Roland. Any other speakers?

Does the committee agree that Minister’s Statement 62-16(2) is concluded?

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I, too, support this motion and encourage my colleagues to support it.

I think a review of the policy would not hurt, to tune it up to truly benefit Northerners. It won’t surprise people to hear that I would really see a progressive policy that favours those businesses that use local materials, local energy, local employees and so on.

Our economy goes through dips and dives and rises and heights and so on, and the BIP plays an important role, especially during the lower periods. To do it in right now, just because we happen to have a roaring economy, is not good...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I’d like to talk about revenue leakage, the loss of dollars, just like with a bathtub drain, out of the Northwest Territories, out of our communities. Solutions to plugging this drain would be a huge contribution to a healthy economic stimulus for the Northwest Territories. The Government of Canada announced this morning that $40 million is the subsidy that they provide for food mail for the North. They started to suggest that we grow our own food. What a concept.

This government subsidizes almost $140 million to various forms of cost-of-living expenses. When I...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. A question to the Chairman of the Financial Management Board, Secretariat. Would the Chairman of the Financial Management Board please provide:

a list of all subsidies provided by the GNWT; and

for each subsidy, the amount spent, by community, for the most recent fiscal year available?

Thank you.

Thanks to the Minister for those remarks. Why are we hiring locums from afar when we have local nurses available to do the job?

Mr. Speaker, this is in reference to my Member’s statement. I realize that Human Resources is responsible for the graduate placement program, but I believe that the departments, and presumably their authorities, make the final decisions on hires. I’d like to ask the Minister of Health and Social Services: is there a clear understanding of a northern hire preference policy within our health institutions, and how is this reinforced from time to time?